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RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIX PODCAST  8th February 2019 Well we’ve made it into double figures! Here’s episode 10 of the new FRIDAY FIX podcast now available to download and enjoy.  Once again it includes interviews from around Cornwall, mixed in with Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our Predictions on a handful of games throughout the Saturday football programme. Now anyone who has listened to the previous 9 episodes will know we’re not that brilliant with our forecasts and Lee Gribble from St Day comes on to tell us so!  As usual we keep in touch with our resident Truro City supporters, Josh and Cam, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. Rappo takes his regular look at the Cornwall Combination League scene and we hear from Perranwell’s Chairman Andy Snapes, in particular, about the League’s decision this week to allow Carharrack some breathing space! Matt Hayden outlines his ambitions for St Blazey while we speak again to Wendron manager Jack Greenwood, both about the Senior Cup success, but also about the sad news that club official Kevin Williamson passed away last weekend. Kevin has been so instrumental in the club’s success off the pitch. Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. It’s 90 minutes plus a little added on time  of fun talking about Cornish football with some of the people who are making sure Saturday continues to be our football day. Why not also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football. 

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIX PODCAST  1st February 2019 Episode 9 of the new FRIDAY FIX is now available to download and enjoy with a bonus of a cameo appearance from Rappo’s Mother-in-Law this week (twice even!).  Once again it also includes interviews with managers from around Cornwall, mixed in with Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our Predictions on a handful of games throughout the Saturday football programme. As usual we keep in touch with our resident Truro City supporters, Josh and Cam, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. Rappo takes his regular look at the Cornwall Combination League scene and we hear from three managers involved in Senior Cup match this Saturday – Mike Walton (Launceston), Dane Bunney (Saltash Utd) and Kevin Richards (Porthleven). We also get to speak to Bodmin Town’s Harry Evans who is leaving for Australia next week and he’s lining up to play down under! We wish him good luck. Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. It’s almost 90 minutes of fun talking about Cornish football with some of the people who are making sure Saturday continues to be our football day. Why not also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football. 

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST  25th January 2019 Episode 8 - available to download and enjoy.  More interviews and this week featuring the Duchy and LWC Drinks Combination as well as the South West Peninsula League with Shaun German (Foxhole) and Harry Pope (Penryn Athletic). In amongst the guest interviews, there are of course the usual features such as Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our Predictions on a handful of games throughout the Saturday football programme, we also hear from our resident Truro City supporters, just Cam this week, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. And while at a match midweek, we managed to speak to Helston Athletic’s manager Steve Massey as well as James Miller of Falmouth Town straight after Town’s League Cup win at St Austell. Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. It’s around 90 minutes of fun talking about Cornish football with some of the people who are making sure Saturday continues to be our football day. Don’t forget, you can always leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football. Go on, give it a go and let us know what you reckon.

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST  18th January 2019 TIMINGS (TOTAL : 1:31:36) 01:17  Justyn Male and JJ (Joshua Jones) from Perranporth Football & Cricket Club’s respectively. 7:55 TCFC_Updates co-host Cam Weldon 15:00 “The Bet of the Week” 18:55 Alan Yendall – part of the Cornwall’s County Youth coaching team 32:54 Rappo’s Combo review 40:55 Phil Hiscox’s SWPL weekly catch-up 54:00 Darren Gilbert (Manager - Bodmin Town) 1:03:20 Predictions – after 6 podcasts we’ve got 1 each correct! 1:12:00 Gary Williams (Assistant Manager – Torpoint Athletic) 1:19:00 Alan Carey (Manager – Porthleven) Believe it or not, this is the 7th episode of the FRIDAY FIXTURE to become available to download and enjoy. Time certainly goes quickly when we’re having fun producing them!  We got more interviews than ever this time around and with some icons of Cornish football from the past couple decades as well. It’s great that we can get to hear their thoughts, and even better that we can share them with our listeners. So amidst the interviews there’s the usual features such as Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our Predictions on a handful of games throughout the Saturday football programme, from SWPL through to Duchy and Trelawny. We keep in touch with our resident Truro City supporters, just Cam this week, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. While Rappo takes his regular look at the Cornwall Combination League scene, we hear from County Youth coach Alan Yendall who shares the enjoyment and satisfaction in the knowledge that the county is producing some fine footballers. We have a chat with the Perranporth football and cricket clubs who are staging a charity game soon in memory of Peter Batchelor who was connected with both clubs, while Gary Williams outlines the Torpoint season to us. Finally, who’s left – oh of course, two big names in Cornish football, none other than Darren Gilbert and Alan Carey. Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. It’s around 90 minutes of fun talking about Cornish football with some of the people who are making sure Saturday continues to be our football day. Don’t forget, you can always leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football. Go on, give it a go and let us know what you reckon. Dave Deacon

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST  11th January 2019 There’s another episode of the new FRIDAY FIXTURE now available to download and enjoy.  Once again it includes interviews with managers from around Cornwall, mixed in with Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our Predictions on a handful of games throughout the Saturday football programme. As usual we keep in touch with our resident Truro City supporters, Josh and Cam, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. Rappo takes his regular look at the Cornwall Combination League scene and we hear from Perranwell’s joint manager Simon Fisher ahead of the ‘Well’s Senior Cup match with Peninsula giants St Austell. Macca Brown returns to the CORNISH SOCCER Podcast and gives his thoughts on the Millbook season so far, while Jack Greenwood highlights what to expect as manager of Wendron United Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. It’s 90 minutes of fun talking about Cornish football with some of the people who are making sure Saturday continues to be our football day. Why not also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football. 

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST  4th January 2019 Another episode of the new FRIDAY FIXTURE is now available to download and enjoy.  More interviews with managers and players around Cornwall, mixed in with Rappo’s “Bet of the Week” and our abysmal attempt at some Predictions, while we keep in touch with our resident Truro City supporters, Josh and Cam, as well as the SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox. Actually, this week it’s more Josh than Cam as you’ll find out why! However, in fine style Josh carries on solo as we recap on the Hungerford win, another Torquay defeat and preview Welling.  SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox was at one of the midweek League Cup matches and the quarter finals are now clearer. After three successes on the trot, the run came to an abrupt halt, but nevertheless it hasn’t deterred Rappo as he gives us another ‘Bet of the Week’. Before Rappo also highlights recent Cornwall Combination League activity, we hear from St Day’s Rob Hosking ahead of their Senior Cup tie with one of his former clubs Porthleven.  Then Polperro manager Matt Pengelly tells us how special a day its going to be for his squad, who for most, it will be their first-ever visit to the iconic Bickland Park.  Don’t ask how many of his five Senior Cup finals Rappo won though! But in his defence, he’s amongst many a great past Cornish players who also hasn’t picked up an Easter Monday winners trophy. With all the Senior Cup talk it seems natural to use those games for our usual Predictions slot, but can it help us improve on our terrible tally of only one correct since we started the Friday Fix a few weeks ago? Finally, ahead of St Austell’s trip to Chertsey Town for their FA Vase tie, we talk to player and assistant manager Neil Slateford who did a similar trip with the Lillywhites four seasons ago. Once again, thanks for listening and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. You can also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football.

   RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST – 28th December 2018 Another episode of the new FRIDAY FIXTURE is now available to download and enjoy.  It’s another 83 minutes of interviews, predictions, and of course listen in for Rappo’s ‘Bet of the Week’ – he’s on a run of three successful weeks and so can he make it another one of winning? As we always do, we kick-off with a chat with our two young Truro City supporters, Cam and Josh, who give their thoughts on the Torquay match, as well as looking ahead to the return fixture and before that of course Hungerford away. We then speak to SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox for our weekly catch-up and find out if after all his phone was quiet on Christmas day. Rappo has his ‘Bet of the Week’ before we hear from a disappointed sounding Dane Bunney after the Ashes Boxing Day defeat. Rappo gives us his weekly Cornwall Combination update before in contrast to Dane, we feature a very happy sounding Steve Massey, straight after his Helston side beat Falmouth. Then it’s our Predictions with this time huge excitement as we’ve finally got one correct after three weeks of trying! Finally, we talk to Wadebridge Town’s boss Paul Rowe who is enjoying his first season in charge of the SWPL side at Bodieve Park, despite it being a massive learning curve!

RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE PODCAST - 21st December 2018 Our third episode of the new FRIDAY FIXTURE is now available to download and enjoy.  It’s a bumper pre-Christmas episode with interviews, predictions, and of course listen in for Rappo’s ‘Bet of the Week’ – can he make it a third successive week of making us some money? We begin with our usual visit to our young Truro City supporters Cam and Josh who have a busy time ahead with two trips to Torquay, but firstly hear what they thought of the recent return to Treyew. Next up after that is our weekly catch up with SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox and of course we had to mention the weather and listen out for his mobile ring-tone! Godolphin’s manager Paul Sidwell can’t wait for Boxing Day, but before that he gives his thoughts on the season so far at the Newquay-based club. Rappo shares his games for the ‘Bet of the Week’ before we hear from a man who has played in the Newquay v Godolphin local derby - Andy Westgarth. The Falmouth Town manager has a busy week ahead with big games against Argyle, Helston and Saltash. After Rappo’s weekly LWC Drinks Cornwall Combination run down, we talk about the Mortgage Advice Bureau ECPL with AFC St Austell manager Mark Smith. We have our usual Predictions slot as we still await our first correct scoreline of the series, before Andy Avery openly discusses the issues he’s been experiencing at Sticker this season.  Thanks for listening again, twice as many people tuned in to last week’s than the week before and please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. You can also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football! Finally Merry Christmas to everyone and enjoy your football over the festive period. Rappo and Deacs

The second episode of the new RAPPO & DEACS FRIDAY FIXTURE is now available to download and enjoy. Guests include Sam Borthwick who not only talks about his club Callington, but also the great charity work going on in Saltash; there’s the regular slots from Cam and Josh on Truro City and the SWPL Secretary Phil Hiscox. Ace striker and hat-trick hero Liam Eddy recalls the epic 8-4 win last Saturday for St Austell in the Vase as well. We’re in the money so far (after 1 episode 😊) from the ‘Bet of the Week’ while Rappo also brings us up to date with the action from the Cornwall Combination League. Cornwall play Devon Saturday and so naturally we hear from County Youth manager Glynn Hooper and hopefully we’ll get off the ground this week with our Predictions! Thanks for listening, but please feel free to contact me – davedeacon@cornishsoccer.info with feedback, comments and suggestions for future episodes. You can also leave a voice message for inclusion by going onto the Anchor app and following CORNISH SOCCER talking football!

Two of the top ten all-time Falmouth Town strikers relive some memories as Phil Shapcott meets for a pre-Christmas coffee with CORNISH SOCCER's podcast presenter Mark Rapsey